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[This threadbare book looks like it once contained a play, but most of it has been lost to time, vermin, and an unfortunate ink spill. Only two full sentences are distinguishable.]

[knightofleo]

Vienna Teng | The Hymn of Acxiom

somebody hears you; you know that inside someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to (say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood here you’re known

leave your life open; you don’t have to hide someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these (mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot keep them all

let our formulas find your soul we’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind) marshal feed and force (our machines will) design you a perfect love, or (better still) a perfect lust o how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born

now we possess you; you’ll own that in time now we will build you an endlessly upward world (reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth

is that wrong? isn’t this what you want?

amen

[beatriceportinari]

Sunfish, origami, one square sheet of paper

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Miles Johnston

[thirdity]

“This state of ‘no-mind’ exists, as it were, on a knife-edge between the carelessness of the average sensual man and the strained over-eagerness of the zealot for salvation. To achieve it, one must walk delicately and, to maintain it, must learn to combine the most intense alertness with a tranquil and self-denying passivity, the most indomitable determination with a perfect submission to the leadings of the spirit.”

— Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy

[nevver]

All it ever does is rain, Christophe Jarcot

[liquidskydrop-deactivated202201]

[mattatoio]

Euripides, Bacchae, National Theatre of Iceland, 2007. Mask/costume/set design: Thanos Vovolis. Stage director: Giorgos Zamboulakis. Photo © Thanos Vovolis.

[bedupolker]

i dont have an angel and devil on my shoulder there's just a protestant telling me to work harder and a white buddhist who probably misunderstood buddhism telling me to stop wanting anything

[mimi-maru]

The Herald & The Souls of Zaun 💀 (based on Hiremy-Hirschl’s Souls On The Banks of the Acheron)

[dozydawn]

sparks showering the feet of welders

[holyplaces]

Shah Cheragh (Mirror Mosque): Shiraz, Iran.

source 1, 2, 3 4, 5, 6 | map

[archiveofaffinities]

Valerie Jaudon, Kosciusko, 1975

[thirdity]

“The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.”

— Georges Bataille, L'Abbé C

[navoika]

"To become a Katabasian is to shed skin and soul, to drown, and in drowning, be born anew!

Do you accept this offering from the depths?"

alts under the cut

I truly couldn't decide between the versions, so you get them all. I would like to thank Jon Ware, Muna Hussen and B. Narr for giving me insomnia

[l30m730w]

[homunculus-argument]

This counts as vent art.

[weepingwidar]

Taylor Schultek (American, 1990) - Keys to the City (2024)

[pajamasecrets]

Secretary, 2002.